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by tokai 1147 days ago
As I understand it they had fantastic results for the health and life outcomes for addicts. Never heard anything about it bringing change to the actual drug market and criminal groups.
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I'd be curious to hear about Portugal's experience since it's been 20+ years since mass decriminalization. Whatever novelty effect is long past, and we now have a generation that grew up with the liberal policies. My quick search found articles written right after saying everything was going great, and obvious propaganda say that Portugal was nothing but a heroin den with everyone strung out everywhere.